Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01805
To: Zulu 35 zulu35@singnet.com.sg
From: Craig Maynard cybug@home.com
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:30:06 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: A total difference typye of bot
The trick is to have a plant with a solar-tracking mechanism on it's
solar cells, ( a simple SE should do the trick ) and have the output of
the plant charge a large battery to store said energy until a robot
herbivore comes by to have a taste.
Very interesting exploration!
Craig
Zulu 35 wrote:
>
> wow...... .now THAT is really cool... hey! how possible is that?? the
> plant's solar cells would need to produce quite a large output, right?
>
> ----------
> > From: TurtleTek@aol.com
> > To: zulu35@singnet.com.sg; beam@spindle.corp.sgi.com
> > Subject: Re: A total difference typye of bot
> > Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 5:01 AM
> >
> > In a message dated 3/3/99 3:28:12 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> > zulu35@singnet.com.sg writes:
> >
> > > hmm... reminds me of the CYBUG... doesnt it?
> >
> > Well.. the idea is similar to the cybug feeding station idea, except one
> > important aspect of it. The cybug feeding station is just something that
> gets
> > plugged into the wall and the cybug charges it's batteries from when it's
> > "hungry". The one important thing that is different is that the BEAM
> plant/bot
> > combo is solar powered and doesn't need human power. It's like the plant
> and
> > bot are one bot together. I don't know how to put this seemlessly into
> words
> > but I just think the way BEAM does it is just a few degrees "cooler".
> >
> > -TurtleTek
> > "Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
> > say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
> > do not know it. This is knowledge."
> > - K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)
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